Letters to the Editor
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Shit!
Thanks, Mike, for straightening me out. I could have sworn it was the first game. Oh well, the memory is fading...
But I DO know that after they won the Super Bowl there was a lot of talk comparing them to the '72 Dolphins, which pissed a lot of people off.
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Can NHL Teams Just Schedule Outdoor On Their Own?
...Or, do they need league approval? (Probably = league delay for years or league squelching forever)
Detroit would love this. They could do it in Comerica Park, home of the Tigers. We could do it during our Winter Festival, in January. Teams should just start doing it.
One problem: In Buffalo,, in the football stadium, the fans were pretty far from the action. Fenway Park (small & tall) might be the best spot for outdoor hockey games.
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Worst article I've read on Salon ever
Geez,
This article is crap. Aside from all the wrong information that even the most casual search of the Web or Snopes.com might educate the author on, this is the sort of drivel I HATE paying my Salon dues to support. Where's the insight? Where is the thinking? Where is the Excellence? If I wanted this sort of AM radio self-important ranting I'd listen to AM radio.
I'm all for the Patriots giving us fans an even greater performance than the Dolphins did in '72. But I tell you this: I was there for the "72 season and watched all the games. It was the sort of excitement that the NFL rarely delivers and now only seems to be found in college ball if it is found at all.
It was all different then for those who saw it live. And the two can never be accurately compared. Every advantage that one generation seems to have in truth cuts both ways. And if you didn't live it then it's really impossible to appreciate. Furthermore, though I loved watching the Dolphins in '72, I'd gladly argue against them, or the '07 Patriots, being the best team ever. And I doubt that anyone will ever call any game of these two teams "perfect seasons" the greatest they ever saw. If you were there, what made it all so bittersweet and remarkable was what happened after; losing Csonka, Kiick, and Warfield to the World Football League.
Are the '07 Patriots the most dominant team ever? No. Were the '72 Dolphins? No. Does today's legion of flamethrowers and sycophants at the teat of professional sports have a vested interest in this being the best time ever to pay attention? You bet!
Every generation deserves that near perfect excellence in their ranks and I hope the Patriots are it. Because it sure as hell ain't gonna be found in King Kaufman's Sports Daily
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bumpy
Aside from all the wrong information that even the most casual search of the Web or Snopes.com might educate the author on, this is the sort of drivel I HATE paying my Salon dues to support.
Pity you couldn't provide even a single example of "all the wrong information" in the worst article ever. Please do educate the author and the rest of us. Or is it just that you were there, so they were best?
Always a drag to pay for something only to have it challenge your most cherished myths, eh.
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You're kidding, right?
Bump, you cannot possibly lambast Kaufman - rightly or wrongly - about self-importance, and then use your letter to talk about "I was there in 1972, blah blah." Are you serious? If you were a Miami fan, and I assume you were, because otherwise I don't see how you could have seen all their games in the days before Sunday Ticket, then yes, I'm sure they were exciting games, but that's because you were an invested fan in their outcome.
To have any significant memories of 1972, I figure you have to be about 50 years old. You're looking at your youth through rose colored glasses. Also, in 1972, you wouldn't have known you were watching an undefeated season until it already happened...this year, thanks to ESPN, we had to hear about the Pats maybe going undefeated since week three.
And this is the WORST article you've ever read in Salon? Ever? And you want too talk about self-importance? Please. It's a middle-of-the-pack article about sports.
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KK forgets one small issue
I've been reading KK's stuff for awhile now, and enjoy it. Also appreciate his humor, which is often sorely lacking, or badly executed, in sports these days. So I was a bit bowled over by this latest post, ripping the '72 Dolphins on their lack of generosity toward the Pats. I read the thing twice just to make sure, and sure enough: nowhere did he mention that the Pats were caught cheating. What's next? Rip the women who set all the records Marion Jones broke for not being kinder to ol' MJ? Repeat: the league caught the Pats CHEATING to win a game. Why the league didn't take away the victory--now THAT would be a proper topic for an article. But writing an article like this without even mentioning the whole cheating scandal, including the various punishments levied against the Pats, is so mystifying that it leads one to think KK must have an ax to grind here, or maybe an allegiance to the cheaters? Say it ain't so, KK. Feel free to clarify.
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@MendoJim
RE: Patriots Cheating Scandal
Really? I hadn't heard anything about that. Perhaps you could ask Lynx or Mike's Pace. Bill Bel-a-cheat; every week, all season, for 4 months. I get it.. They suck... Even at 16-0, even if they manage to win it all, they'll still suck. 2 votes, 3 if you count MendoJim, definitely in the "Patriots Suck cause they're cheaters" column. Got it. Just marked it down.
You ever wonder where the screenwriter of "Groundhog Day" got his inspiration from? I think he probably read too many online sports columns' "Letters" sections...
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West Virginia on the Mountaintop
Just finished watching the Mountaineers stomp on Bob Stoops' Oklahomies and boy was that ever the worst bout of officiating in the entire "bowl season"!!!!! Blatant Sooners holding on virtually every freakin' play and all the "officials" were blind no matter how close to the spot they stood. The cameras showed it, but the officials (somehow) missed it! Bunch of deadbeats.
And the "commentary" wasn't much better. Here was WVU crushing the Sooners' nuts on every drive and all the "expert" commentators could talk about was what a fine and dandy fellow Bob Stoops is. Why, did you know he grew up in Ohio? That he lived in a shoebox with five other siblings? That the family ate coal that had been smuggled over the border from Pennsylvania? That, despite his struggles (his dad was also a college coach), he's still "a class act?
Every freaking' Monty Python cliche in the book was dragged out and pressed into service to declare the Sooners "God's Gift to College Football" ... even though the cameras clearly showed they were out-played and out-gunned and out-coached every step of the way by a brilliant squad of explosive Mountaineers.
Apparently everyone in Pundit Land had already decided OU would win, and so they continued to talk as though WVU's "emotion" was all they had going for them; and as this would surely wane as the game progressed the Mountaineers would eventually bow to the inevitable and lose. But ... they didn't. They demonstrated that Rodriguez (another "class act") did the wrong thin g in abandoning this school and this squad for the over-rated Michigan blueballs.
So:
This year's award for The Most Lopsided Commentary of the BCS Season goes to ...